Proverbs 25:2 "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter." Why is it a glory to God to conceal a thing? What is it that he conceals? Does not God show us all things?
Well, no. In the book of Revelation God sealed up what the 12 thunders said until after the judgement. No man knows the hour of the last day but the Father in heaven. (Mark 13:32) Even as we consider that God conceals some things, we know that what is to God’s advantage is also to our advantage.
Because God seals a thing up from one person does not mean he does not reveal it to any. While hiding a thing from one person he may reveal that thing to another. This is a reason the saved can understand the Bible but the unsaved cannot. Also, as a proficient teacher, God may keep a thing from a person who may be confused by that thing at an early point in his spiritual development to reveal it to him when he becomes ready for it. It shows his power . . . that mankind just can not know everything there is to know. It shows God’s involvement and concern with men. God keeps his precious things from the godless and controls who gets what
We ourselves do not reveal all. We conceal to hide something because the one seeking it should not have it. We conceal to control the timing of the revelation to the seeker, or to exercise the seeker. You don’t want him to find it, or you want him to have it at some later time, or you want him to exercise some character in the search for it.
Godless reasons to hide knowledge would be: you want what belongs to someone else but can’t have it yourself, so you hide it from the rightful owner. You hate the true owner and want to do them harm. It is to your advantage to delay the receipt of the thing. You don’t like the other and don’t want to be involved with him.
